F. S. Fitzgerald, Babylon revisited Ernest Hemingway, The snows of Kilimanjaro William Faulkner, The old people, The bear (in Go down, Moses) Flannery OConnor, A temple of the Holy Ghost Jack Kerouac, On the road (part I, chapters 1-9) Allen Ginsberg, Howl John Cheever, The enormous radio Truman Capote, Master misery Carson McCullers, A tree, a rock, a cloud J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey Sylvia Plath, The bell jar (chapters 1 and 9) Joyce Carol Oates, Where are you going, where have you been? John Barth, Chimera (part I, Dunyazadiad) Raymond Carver, What we talk about when we talk about love Toni Morrison, Beloved (chapters/sections 1-5) Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho (first four chapters, April Fools, Morning, Harrys, Pastels) Chuck Palahniuk, Fight club (chapters 1-7) George Saunders, I can speak!TM, Jon (in In persuasion nation) Ernest Cline, Ready player one (chapters 1-5)
Lectures
C1. Course introduction
C2. The first American authentic: Emerson/Thoreau/Melville C3. The anatomists of the past: Fitzgerald, Hemingway C4. The old, the young and the timeless: Faulkner, OConnor C5. The Beat(s): Kerouac, Ginsberg C6. The young and the restless: Salinger, Plath C7. The realists: Cheever, Carver, Oates C8. The escapists: Capote, McCullers C9. The flamboyant: Barth C10. The ancestral: Morrison C11. The transgressive: Easton Ellis, Palahniuk C12. The futurists now: Saunders, Cline